Teaching Assistant Program in France
The overall objective of this programme is to enable assistants to learn about the language and society of their host country whilst bringing their native speaker language skills and their valuable knowledge of their own culture to schools.
To this end, this programme contributes to students’ mobility, at European and international level, and offers them a training opportunity and an introduction to professional life, thus providing unquestionable added value to their university studies.
The assistant’s role is to improve pupils’ communication skills (in particular oral skills) and develop their knowledge of a different society and culture. They support the work of the language department in the school they are placed in, under the supervision of the modern languages teachers. They may do this in whole class situations in the teacher’s presence, or they may lead activities independently with small groups of pupils.
Main duties
You may carry out the following duties in your school:
- conversation practice with pupils alongside the teacher
- participate in various educational activities held in the school
- contribute to authentic voice recordings to enrich the school’s audiovisual resources
- individual pupil support
- participate in the implementation of exchange programmes
- lead a language club
- educational support
- intensive language courses.
Assistants may also get involved in other areas of school life depending on the requirements of their school.
The foreign language assistant programme is open to all candidates who:
- come from one of the 60 partner countries (bilateral agreements or international obligations)
- are native speakers of the language to be taught in France (Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish)
- have completed their secondary education and are enrolled in higher education in the country from which they are applying
- are aged between 20 and 35 years (in Canada)
- The age range agreed between the partner countries is in line with the programme’s general objectives and the assistant’s specific profile.
- are enrolled in and attending a university at the time of application
- have successfully completed 2 years of the bachelor’s degree
- possess a good knowledge of the French language (B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
SALARY: 800 euros / month
Schedule: 12 hours /week
TO APPLY:
Information:
http://highereducation.francecanadaculture.org/en/teach-in-france
Students can email:
assistants-langue@ambafrance-ca.org
DEADLINE TO APPLY: February 15, 2016